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  2. Non-fungible token - Wikipedia

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    History Early projects. The first known "NFT", Quantum, was created by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash in May 2014. It consists of a video clip made by McCoy's wife, Jennifer. McCoy registered the video on the Namecoin blockchain and sold it to Dash for $4, during a live presentation for the Seven on Seven conferences at the New Museum in New York City.

  3. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi, [a] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language used as the official language of India alongside English. It is written in Devanagari script and is the lingua franca of North India.

  4. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    South Africa is a country formed from centuries of immigrants, settlers, and colonisers. It has a long history of using racial slurs or derogatory phrases when speaking of the other. Some such words have more recently been reclaimed as a mark of pride and defiance (for example, coloured). [citation needed]

  5. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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    Chomsky's contributions span intellectual and world history, including the history of philosophy. Irony is a recurring characteristic of his writing, such as rhetorically implying that his readers already know something to be true, which engages the reader more actively in assessing the veracity of his claims. Personal life

  6. HTML - Wikipedia

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    Relying mainly on the layout as opposed to meaning, often using markup that does not convey the intended meaning but simply copies the layout. Often producing extremely verbose and redundant code that fails to make use of the cascading nature of HTML and CSS.

  7. Eugenics - Wikipedia

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    Plomin suggests that polygenic scores might supplement testing in a manner that is free of biases. Various works by author Robert A. Heinlein mention the Howard Foundation, a group aimed at improving human longevity through selective breeding. Eugenics is commonly seen in popular media, as highlighted by series like Resident Evil.

  8. Language - Wikipedia

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    Word classes can be "open" if new words can continuously be added to the class, or relatively "closed" if there is a fixed number of words in a class. In English, the class of pronouns is closed, whereas the class of adjectives is open, since an infinite number of adjectives can be constructed from verbs (e.g. "saddened") or nouns (e.g. with ...

  9. Sustainable development - Wikipedia

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    A related concept is that of sustainable development, and the terms are often used to mean the same thing. UNESCO distinguishes the two like this: " Sustainability is often thought of as a long-term goal (i.e. a more sustainable world), while sustainable development refers to the many processes and pathways to achieve it."